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As the curtain
fell closing the second Ethiopian Film Festival, the doors opened on
Addis Abeba's newest cinema, Matti Multiplex. While both events
occurred last Friday, they seem worlds apart.
Stepping off
the road across from Bole Medanialem Church, avoiding piles of
gravel from the rampant construction, and entering Edna Mall's glass
doors is like leaving a chaotically modernising city and being
surrounded by its future goal. The atmosphere inside is an ordered
tidiness as the evenly spaced and sized stores present neatly
arranged products in stark contrast to the small shops dotting town
centres with their lived-in disarray.
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